Census, Catholic-Style
OK:
But before people start going into a frenzied "Muslims are everywhere!" mode, understand that:
I don't know about anyone else, but wouldn't a better comparison been between two different sects or denominations? Y'know, like the percentage of Catholics versus the percentage of Shia? Or am I completely off-base here?
VATICAN CITY - Islam has surpassed Roman Catholicism as the world's largest religion, the Vatican newspaper said Sunday.
"For the first time in history, we are no longer at the top: Muslims have overtaken us," Monsignor Vittorio Formenti said in an interview with the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano. Formenti compiles the Vatican's yearbook.
He said that Catholics accounted for 17.4 percent of the world population — a stable percentage — while Muslims were at 19.2 percent.
But before people start going into a frenzied "Muslims are everywhere!" mode, understand that:
When considering all Christians and not just Catholics, Christians make up 33 percent of the world population, Formenti said.
I don't know about anyone else, but wouldn't a better comparison been between two different sects or denominations? Y'know, like the percentage of Catholics versus the percentage of Shia? Or am I completely off-base here?
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